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Examples
Adjective (1)
  • //corny violin music during the movie's love scenes
  • //the audience groaned as the emcee told one corny joke after another
First Known Use
Adjective (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3
Adjective (2)
1689, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology
Adjective (1)
Middle English, from corn corn entry 1 + -y -y entry 1
Adjective (2)
corn entry 3 + -y entry 1
corny
adjective

Synonyms & Antonyms

cor​re​spon​dence
noun
cor·​re·​spon·​dence
ˌkȯr-ə-ˈspän-dən(t)s ˌkär-

Definition

  • communication by letters or email
    also the letters or emails exchanged //I have a pile of correspondence on my desk.
    the news, information, or opinion contributed by a correspondent to a newspaper or periodical
  • the agreement of things with one another //the correspondence between spelling and pronunciation
    a particular similarity
    a relation between sets in which each member of one set is associated with one or more members of the other
    — compare function sense 5a
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
common denominator commonality congruity parallel resemblance similarity similitude
Antonyms
dissimilarity
Examples
  • //They communicated by telephone and correspondence.
  • //E-mail correspondence has become extremely important for modern businesses.
  • //The two men began a correspondence that would continue throughout their lives.
  • //A book of the author's personal correspondence was published early last year.
  • //A formal tone is always used in business correspondence.
  • //Note the correspondence of each number to a location on the map.
  • //Sometimes there is little correspondence between the way a word is spelled and the way it is pronounced in English.
  • //Sometimes there are few correspondences between spelling and pronunciation.
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a
History and Etymology
— see correspond
correspondence
noun

Synonyms & Antonyms